Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 5

After our film opening was shown at the local cinema, we asked members of the audience for their reaction and thoughts about it. This is what our target audience had to say about out film opening.

Evaluation Question 6

Technology was a massive part of out production and we wouldn't have been able to produce our film opening without it. I believe that the technology also helped and added to our creativity and develop more ideas for the film opening as we were surrounded by inspiration all the time.

Evaluation Question 7

Final Editing Session

THIS IS OUR FINAL EDITING LESSON. THIS IS WERE WE FINIALIZED EVERYTHING FOR THE SCREEN ON THE GREEN AND MADE SURE THAT WE HAD EVERYTHING WE WANTED TO PUT INTO THE TITLE SEQUENCE IN. WE CHECKED SAFE MARGINS TO SEE IF OUR TEXT WAS IN A SAFE SPACE. AT THE END OF THE LESSON WE TICKED OUR GROUP OFF OF THE LIST AS WE HAD COMPLETED OUR TITLE SEQUENCE.

 

 

 

Recording Extra Sounds

Today I recorded extra sounds for our opening as we still needed more layers of sound. Firstly, I re-recorded the breathing which I initially recorded the other day as it sounded too feminine. Then, I also recorded a narration to place at the end of the opening, which will fit in with the extra footage that we shot.

In order to do this, two people helped me as they were boys. Like last time, I recorded the sounds using my microphone and laptop.

Narrative script by Monika and lauryn

Narrative script.

We recently finished our rough cut 2 and it was said that we needed to increase the layers of sound in our video.

We had an idea that the villain could be on the phone to someone at the end of the title sequence and this is the script:

Villain:'' I can't do anything about it, her scent attracts my predator instincts. You know that feeling man? its just her, she's the mystery i've been trying to solve even if it will cost my freedom. However There are times when all I can think about is the satisfaction I will get slicing her heart open."

(We will put 'phone effect' to make it sound like the stalker is on the phone with someone when saying this)

                     

DRAFTING- By Lauryn and Abi.

Drafting:

After recent feedback of our first rough cut it was said that the ending was unclear (the girl accepting the friend request). It was meant to signify danger as we saw the villain's environment and lifestyle before he send the request along with the music.
To make it more clear to the audience it was said to add more of a narrative approach to the ending.

We thought that we would:

• Film the actual target walking somewhere
• Have the stalker watching and following her 
• Have her walking out of her house (normal)

Here are some shots Taken by Abigayle in Hainault :

We thought that this would make the audience understand the title sequence a little bit more as it was discreet.

Recording Sounds

Today (17th January), I recorded some sounds for our opening as we needed more layers of sounds to make it more effective. I recorded the sounds using a microphone and my laptop.

The sounds I recorded are:

- Breathing

- Paper ripping

-Writing on paper 

-Slamming paper down

-A bang

-Opening the door 

-Flicking through photos

-Typing on a keyboard 

- Finger tapping

We intend to record more sounds tomorrow during lesson time such as footsteps and a male breathing heavily, as I believe that the breathing sound I recorded sounds too feminine.

Here are some photos of me recording:

FINAL SOUNDSCAPE.

We were were looking at many different thriller soundtracks. Taking inspiration from our remake seven we wanted to use a similar soundtrack. We had to look for non copyright music so we looked at many different sites to find one.

we finally came across a copyright free sight called beat suite:

http://www.beatsuite.com/music/category/crime-thriller-espionage/353http://www.beatsuite.com/music/category/crime-thriller-espionage/353

and decided to use these following tracks:

We used this soundtrack all throughout the title sequence. However we had a different soundtrack for the indent to help differentiate the indent more. This is the soundtrack we used:




We are also going to use foley sound.
The types of foley sound that we are going to use are:

• the highroad (the cars)
• someone smashing something 
• heavy breathing 
• walking 
• lighting matches
• scribbling on the paper 

FILMING - additional shot

After sharing our Rough Cut 1 with other classmates we decided to take their opinion into account and filmed some additional shots where we introduce the second character - Cassie. This made our opening title sequence more narrative as those shots are the first scene of the actual film.

The filming took place in Hainault, Abigayle's house.

EDITING - refering to feedback + titles

 EDITING

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(Whole group working together)

In today's double session we had enough time to make some changes in our title opening sequence, also deciding about the details of where and when to film our additional shots. We also had a chance to start including titles in the sequence using after affects.

 

On the other half of the session we split the tasks between us to get more things done.

(Editing title sequence)

 We adjusted the brightness and colour balance on the brightest shot (under the bridge shot in Camden) which everyone thought contrasts too much with the rest of them and doesn't fit in. We made sure it's darker and stands out less.

Evaluation of Rough Cut 1

I believe that our group's rough cut of our title sequence was successful as a whole. As we decided to do a discrete opening, the order of the shots made sense, even though they were not in the exact order that we had intended due to finding more locations whilst out filming.

The camera work in my opinion was okay. We used many different shots and used the tripod as different stages of filming. However, some of the footage that we shot was really shaky due to the very cold weather - to solve this we cut down the footage during editing so that it wasn't as noticeable. 

We used a variety of shots in order to portray our genre and ones that we thought would help allow us to create tension in our film opening. The shots included 
Wide shots
Close ups
Over the shoulder shots
Extreme close ups
Panned shots
Low angle shots


For a few of the scenes we used lights which we borrowed from college as we were filming in many different dark locations. However, we had to use the lights on our phones to spotlight the character and his surroundings as the power was out. There were other times in which we didn't use the lights as it would ruin the natural light and its affect, such as in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel.

We only had two characters in our film opening, one of the reasons for this decision was that our opening was discrete. One character was played by my friend; however the role role was played through photographs of her. The character of the stalker was played by different people due to the original person not being able to shoot all the time. As the stalkers' costume was black clothing, and their face was never revealed, different people were able to play it without any viewers noticing.

I feel as if we used the Mise-en-scene well during our opening which really allowed to achieve our genre of Thriller/Horror. The use of the grave yard and Greenwich Foot Tunnel really added to that. I also think the use of costumes and props really added to this too.

SWOT Analysis

Looking back at my previous blogs, I have noticed that a number of them needs to be improved and that I have both weaknesses and strengths.

Strengths 
- A lot of research into Thriller movies and into the target audience
-  Detailed blogs, explaining exactly what needs to be done (production)
- My blog posts do not look messy


Weaknesses
- Not enough multi media in blog posts
- I have quite a few unfinished blogs which I need to complete so that I do not get left behind on current blog posts.
- Time management between work from all different subjects


Threats
- I find it hard finding the right GIFS to use, as I imagine what I want my blog posts to look like in my head before starting one


Opportunities
- I really like filming as it's helping me develop my camera skills and my confidence is boosting every time I use the camera

Evidence Audit Task

Rough Cut 2 Feedback

ROUGH CUT 2 FEEDBACK

Today we completed our rough cut 2 and presented it to our class. They gave us feedback on what they liked and what they thought we could do to improve.

To improve they said we should:

- Put the distributor title before the production title.

- Take out the ':' in the titles as it wasn't consistent throughout the opening.

- Lighten the ashtray shots a little bit as some people thought it wasn't clear enough.

- Add sound to the blank screen towards the end as the students in our class thought it that our film had ended, but we had more shots to come.

- Some of the credits need to be on the screen a bit longer, to give the audience more time to read them. The lack of time also links to the effect as it makes the credits flash on and off the screen.

- They also said that we need more layers of sound. We were already aware of this and have scheduled to record some sounds over the weekend ready for our next editing session on Monday.

We will take all of the comments on board and we will do everything we can in order to improve our opening title sequence.

What they liked:

- The class liked our soundtrack and how the shots was in time with some of the sound.

- People also liked our opening in general and our teacher said : 'it's excellent, not good, excellent'           

Rough Cut 2

OUR ROUGH CUT 2 WHICH WE PRODUCED IN TODAY'S LESSON.

SINCE ROUGH CUT 1 FEEDBACK WE WERE WORKING ON TITLES AND ADDITIONAL SHOTS. HOWEVER IT STILL NEED LOTS OF IMPROVEMENT.